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L TWO BELLS r Vol,. 1 FEBRUARY 7, 1921 No. 36 A Herald of Good Cheer and Cooperation Published by and for Employee of the Los Angeles Railway Edited by J. G. JEFFERY, Director of Public Relations Organization Change Announced GIVE SLIPPERY RAILS PLENTY OF SAND NO CHANGE IN Accident Query—" Was Headlight Burning?" THROW POWER MOW THAT JUST GOES TO PERSONNEL yW^ 5.12owt,coEH R4: ...9 THEY TOLD "ME OFF AT SAFE WHEN I GOT DAT MADE BY BOOZE IT HAD FIN AWFUL KICK BUT DIAN ME IF TOUGHT IT Up E' ANY THING N DISTANCE LIKE DAT !! SHIFT By JOHN C. COLLINS Traveling Supervisor of Safety Following the appointment of Mr. We had a very bad rain on the day George Baker Anderson, former man- before Christmas; also three read-end ager of service, to the position of man- collisions, each car going north. No ager of transportation of the Los An- collisions southbound, where the haz- 1111Mialing geles Railway, changes of organiza- ard was the greatest, which shows the tion are announced by Mr. G. J. men recognized the danger and used Kuhrts, general manager. Mr. An- greater caution. derson will have charge of the entire operating department, general service, The collisions northbound were employment and instruction. No caused by motormen running up too changes of personnel are involved. close to the car ahead before begin- ning to stop. In Mr. F. Van Vranken, who has been each case the mo- general superintendent, becomes as- Joe Stork Has to sistant to the general manager. torman thou g h t WITNESS DRAWS he was beginning Travel; That's why R. R. Smith Promoted to stop far enough Mr. R. R. Smith is made assistant away. Had these ACCIDENT STORY superintendent of operations. Mr. men timed them- He Favors Carmen Giving a report of his impression Smith began as a motorman in 1904, selves to arrive at entered the instruction department in t h e intersection of how an accident happened by illus- No rest for Old John Stork. trating it with a comic cartoon is the 1907, and was appointed chief instruc- as the other car tor January 1, 1919. The position of was leaving, by throwing power off This time he hovered around Divi- unique method employed by E. H. sion Two and as a result Conductor Klum of 3906 Homer Street. Mr. chief instructor now rests with Mr. fifty or a hundred feet further away, K. E. Sloan passed around the cigars Klum witnessed a minor accident R. A. Pierson, who has been with the the momentum would have died down with the announcement that "it's a downtown in which the victim was Los Angeles Railway 17 years. Start- so the car would have stopped at that apparently inspired by liquor that ing as a motorman, he was soon made point with practically no air and ac- nine-pound girl." Mother and daugh- ter are doing very nicely. had come into being without having a dispatcher, and for the last seven cident would have been avoided. Then, just to show how impartial he a birth certificate registered with the years has been in the instruction de- Reverse Is Dangerous is, the purveyor of progeny brought revenue officers. The happy individual partment. Dan Healy is made assist- When wheels lock you will travel a joy to the home of a "front end" man was doing a highland fling, or some ant chief instructor. He has been in certain distance before you can get and left a fine baby boy at the home such, off and on the car tracks to show street car service here 16 years. them to turn again. This distance of Motorman H. E. Mohler. that he was fond of Scotch even if Mr. R. B. Hill is superintendent of he had only a poor substitute. depends on the speed you were travel- Congratulations all around. operations, having been appointed to ing when the wheels started to skid. Mr. Klum stated that the motorman that position October 1, 1919. He has Division Three has located the stork was in no way to blame and sketched The slower the man is in releasing again. The old bird paid a visit to been given charge of discipline under air the greater the distance traveled. off the amusing cartoon reproduced the Merit System. the home of Conductor R. L. Smith above, indicating that a large part of If he allowed his car to get too close January 21 and left therein as a re- to some object before starting to slow the interest was not whether the man Change of Supervisors minder a wee bit of humanity in the was injured, but where he got it. Mr. Guy down, he is sure to reverse, because shape of a lovely baby girl. All this D. Wheelock, chief dis- by this time he knows a collision can- accounts for the chesty appearance of patcher, is appointed superintendent not be avoided. The reverse will do of schedules. R. L. these days. We are pleased to Wedding Bells Ring more harm than good, nine times out report mother and baby both doing Mr. A. K. Plummer continues as of ten, on this kind of a rail. well. for Condr. Habbick traffic director. A change will be The proper thing for conductors made in the work of supervisors by and motormen to do in zone Number dividing the city in three districts, 0. FISKE RESIGNS "No, I haven't got a new home brew One, when railg are slippery, and they W. recipe. I got married." with a supervisor in charge of each have a car equipped with sand, is to W. 0. Fiske, chief investigator of In this manner Conductor F. Hab- district and certain men assigned reg- use a little sand when the car is slow- ularly to each zone. The three dis- ing down for each stop, intersections the claims department, has resigned bick of Division Four accounted for trict superintendents are J. G. Owen, his happy smile when he returned or curves. It does not take much. If to enter another field. Mr. Fiske has J. A. Bodley and W. H. Snyder. each man would do this the track will been with the Los Angeles Railway from a brief lay-off. Conductor was married January 28 to Miss Thelma Mr. W. J. Van Valkenburg, who be sanded for every other man, after nearly 15 years. He began as a con- One trip over them, and there will be Lewis. Any of the boys will be glad has been in Mr. Anderson's office for ductor and spent four years in the no slippery tracks at dangerous places. to exchange a cigar for a round of several months, is appointed efficiency congratulations. statistician. (Continued on Page 3, Cols. 2-3) train service. FEBRUARY 7, 1921 TWO BELLS PAGE 2 +44-+++ ♦++++++4-+-4-4-f-+++++4-4-44-4-+++++±±±+*4-++++++ + Editorial Comment Long Service Ended JAN. MILEAGE wo Bells Ir The Official Paper of The Los ilngeles Railway +++++++++++++++++-+++++++++++++++++++++4++++4+ IS 25 TIMES Show The Passengers How NE of the best ways to let the thousands of car riders know AROUND what we would like them to do on the cars to promote efficiency O and make the work pleasant is to set a right example ourselves. We all know the fellow who gets on a car in the morning after WORLD finding his breakfast coffee half cold and his "ham and" half done, • One hundred times around the and seeks to take revenge upon the car conductor. The conductor world in January! doesn't have the monopoly by any means, as Mr. A. Grouch still That would be some traveling, but seeks revenge from other folks in the office or shop. it is practically the equivalent of the January street car mileage, which Of course the conductor who will come back with a discourteous totals 2,585,499 miles. answer immediately demonstrates that he is no better than the The Grand and Moneta line leads with a mileage record of 290,338. This noisy Mr. A. Grouch, and then the passengers draw their own con- line stands out ahead of all others by clusions. But the man we like to see and hear is the one who can virtue of the heavy travel, which ne- Condr. Spear makes cessitates a maximum of 91 cars in answer with a smile and make that smile spread. service during the rush hours. That is where the power of example helps the conductor, as he East Pull.ln Crip Washington and Garvanza is next with 205,862 miles recorded. Then immediately wins the good will of passengers around him. ONDUCTOR W. H. SPEAR, comes University and Central with Now the same thing applies to the front end of the car, but who had been sick for the 188,694. West Pico and East First C runs up 164,596 miles, but the West in a somewhat different way. Signs in all cars state that it is last two months, died January 27 at the Clara Barton Hospital, Jefferson and Huntington Park line is against company rules and a city ordinance to engage the motorman where he some time ago under- close behind with 163,145 miles. Sixth honors go to West Adams and Lincoln in unnecessary conversation. But reports have been received that went an operation for stomach trouble. Mr. Spear was well Park with 141,578 miles, and San some trainmen while off duty ride at the front end of the car and Pedro and Western is seventh with known among his fellow-train- 140,424.